DLC Discussion Thread: The Strokes and The Warning!

This week, we’re bringing a Rewind from the first Rock Band and a new DLC release from The Warning, which is free for Rivals owners!

The Strokes first appeared in Rock Band with their single “Reptilia”. A hit on the Modern Rock Tracks in America and the UK Singles Chart, the song has become one of the band’s best known tracks thanks to a strong guitar line and pop culture appearances throughout the 2000s. This week, we’re releasing the track for anyone to purchase, not just those who already had the Rock Band 1 export prior to Rock Band 4’s release. The drums are fast and dense, as you’d expect from the garage punk sound. There’s a ton of kicks all over, including when the song comes down in the prechorus, so don’t think your feet will get a break.

The Warning are a special band to us here at Harmonix. Originally sisters that played Rock Band together, they’re now sisters that play in a real band together. That’s super cool! We included a song from their first EP on the Rock Band 4 disc (“Free Falling”, go check it out again) and now we’ve got a song from The Warning’s debut album last year just for Rivals owners. “Survive” features some good harmonies from the members of the band and a fun drum part, changing up a few times. The guitar’s got a chugging chord pattern throughout, and plays a quick repeating riff through the outro. Be sure to pick it up and check out the rest of XXI Century Blood.

"Reptilia" can be purchased individually for $1.99. "Survive" is a free track accessible to owners of Rock Band Rivals.

ugh. the last 3 weeks we've had a week of unknown bands, a week of retreads, and now a week with one retread and one song from the worst* band on the RB4 soundtrack. i don't mind free songs, for sure, but it would be nice to go back to getting NEW songs by BETTER bands. i don't like the way things are going.

at least this Warning song sounds better than their first one, so it won't be as painful to play.

*ETA: sorry, make that the 2nd worst band on RB4. i forgot about Lightning Bolt. must've blocked them out.

3 weeks in a row i can't give you my money... What is happening?? I'm happy with the free songs but i put money in my psn wallet to give it to you and i can't, oh well, at least i can keep enjoying the game with the songs i have. Can't wait to see what rbn songs are coming soon!

Surprised to see another free song so soon, but sure, I'm open to checking out another song from The Warning. I know "Free Falling" got a lot of flak for being boring in RB4, but hopefully this one is more fun. I'm sure this makes the band themselves happy, too, because the fact that they were inspired to play music via Rock Band and now have not one, but two songs in the game, is an amazing accomplishment for them.

They thought a free song from a band barely anyone knows will compensate for a rewind only week, followed by a week with another rewind.

They were wrong.

It's free DLC from one week. Quit complaining and come back for next weeks announcement.

Oh I'm sorry, can no one express disappointment with anything on this forum? I guess I missed the part where in order to post you had to be part of the HMX does no wrong, praise them and no criticism allowed groupthink.

I liked the The Warning song from RB4; it's a good song IMO, and it's pretty fun on both drums and vocals. So of course I'll be checking out this new song of theirs! And I may also pick up Reptilia, since it's a fun one and I also need to get more rewinds in general.

If it were just one week, that would be a silly reason to complain [but of course it would still happen].However, this is the third week in a row without any new popular songs being offered for purchase.Am I mad about it? Nope. Not even a little bit. I just find it a bit ... ominous. I hope my beloved Rock Band is doing OK.I'd like to hope that others would remain patient and polite about the situation, but it's not ridiculous for people to express ... concern ... while being polite + patient, of course.

I blame myself for being so picky about always having songs be properly mixed. Oh to be offered a Spotlight Pass of songs again ... even if some of them weren't fully featured ... and even if I was more interested in the non-Spotlight Pass songs at least half of the time [but not every time]. Offer the Spotlight Pass option again, HMX, and I promise to buy it, each and every one of them, forever and ever. Amen.